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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

TechCrunch

FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Big impact. “This makes the solutions highly scalable and affordable.”

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Meet the 14 companies launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator

TechCrunch

MedCompli is looking to help small biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies manage compliance, risk and governance. While most gaming training platforms focus on individual skill, SquadOV captures and synchronizes video across multiple teammates to let them watch back and improve team performance as a whole. departments.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

CIO

The late Richard Sykes, CIO of pharmaceuticals giant ICI in the 1990s and later a columnist for CIO magazine, famously scripted starkly different scenarios of the future of ICI for board members early in his IT role. “For Traquina at iProov foresees AI, AR, and VR making stories more immersive and engaging. “AI Why tell stories?

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Digital Therapeutics: How Software Can Treat Diseases

Altexsoft

In many cases, digital medicine deals with pharmaceuticals combining prescription medications and ingestible sensors. It also incorporates training, personalized health coaching, and ongoing support of certified diabetes care specialists. VR technology for psychosis treatment. How to approach digital therapeutics.

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Digital Therapeutics: Swallowing the “Digital” Pill

Mentormate

Customization allowed genomics, pharmaceuticals , and the power of our own immune systems to cooperate and deliver treatments that were most effective for our unique biologies. InMotion VR. InMotion VR uses VR to provide adaptive, precise, and personalized exercises in a gamified experience designed so you can do your PT at home.

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Digital Transformation in Healthcare: 7 Key Trends for 2023

Openxcell

AR/VR, and PaaS/SaaS contribute to digital transformation. In addition to games and entertainment, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology now offer a wide range of useful applications. Many innovative VR and AR applications for healthcare will be introduced this year and in the years to come.

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Pandora's Brain

The tedious jobs which traditionally provided training wheels for accountants and lawyers (“ticking and bashing” for auditors and “disclosure” or “discovery” for lawyers) are increasingly being handled by machines. All major movies made by Netflix, Hollywood and Bollywood are now produced in VR, along with all major video games.

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